Baptist was one of three men sentenced to death by hanging in November 2001 after they were convicted of murdering Azrin White, who was shot dead on the night of July 24, 2000.
[1] Along with Oscar Mendez and Gilroy Wade Jr., Baptist was held in Belize's Central Prison to await execution.
[1] Mendez successfully appealed his sentence in June 2002, arguing that he had been wrongly identified by a witness.
In July 2015 his lawyer, Priscilla Banner, successfully challenged his death sentence, arguing that his constitutional rights had been breached due to the length of time he had spent on death row, which had caused him to be subjected to inhumane treatment and punishment.
[1] In July 2015, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin overturned Baptist's death sentence and scheduled him to be re-sentenced later in the year.